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US House approves healthcare bill 220-215

Backing the biggest health policy changes in four decades and handing President Barack Obama a crucial victory, the House of Representatives approved a sweeping reform bill on a 220-215 vote

Call for calm after US military base killings

Barack Obama cautioned a stunned public against drawing quick conclusions on a shooting rampage by an officer at a Texas military base that killed 13 people

Third time looks uneasy for Bloomberg

With Michael Bloomberg’s final campaigning bill likely to pass $90m, the result raises the question of whether he would have won without outspending his rival Bill Thompson by a factor of 14-1.

Pressure on Obama mounts after jobless rise

Rising US joblessness poses increasingly urgent political and policy challenges for US President Barack Obama

US jobless rate surges above 10%

The unemployment rate shot up to 10.2 per cent in October, its highest level in over 26 years as the economy shed another 190,000 jobs

China hits out at US in fresh trade spat

China accused the US of protectionist and biased trade policies yesterday - only a week beforePresident Barack Obama's first visit to Beijing. In a stinging rebuke to...

Former UBS client jailed for tax fraud

A US court yesterday handed down the first prison sentence to a former US client of UBS in a ruling that will unsettle the Swiss banking group's other US former...

Jobless rise piles fresh pressure on US president

Barack Obama, the US president, said that yesterday's rise into double-digit unemployment - the first time the figure has breached 10 per cent for 26 years -...

Former UBS client jailed over tax

A US court handed down the first prison sentence to a US former client of UBS yesterday in a ruling that will unsettle the Swiss banking group's former offshore...

Insider trading net entangles further suspects

When federal agents arrested Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group, in October, hedge fund managers across the US sat up and took notice. US prosecutors accused...

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